How Anhedonia from Reta Has Affected Users

Whatever that numbing sensation is that quiets my ADHD and eases my anxiety, I'm enjoying it.

GLP-1 meds cross the blood-brain barrier and act on pathways that control emotion, stress, and reward. Both anxiety changes and anhedonia come from this action but show up differently. Anxiety effects vary a lot depending on someone's starting mental health, dose, and how their body adapts. Some people get less anxiety because food noise and impulsive urges drop, and the meds can lower neuroinflammation and help regulate stress responses. Others get more anxiety from GI side effects or blood sugar shifts.

Thanks for the detailed breakdown. Maybe the thread should have been about general mental health effects on Reta instead of just anhedonia. For some reason I felt they were all linked. It feels connected though. Before Reta I was into porn and alcohol, and both desires went to zero. I also used to worry constantly about a girl I'm seeing and that stopped too. All of it has been positive for me and I feel really focused. My interest in football and comics stayed the same though.

Do you think losing 60 lbs makes the body want to conserve energy and stay less active? I'm down 50 lbs and if I push a deficit too hard for a few days my motivation drops a lot.

Same here. It feels bad because I'm not pulling my weight. I stretched doses to two weeks recently and suddenly had energy for cooking and cleaning that had been missing for months. It felt good to be useful again. Then I got back to my weight goal and here I am doing nothing. It's embarrassing and I'm letting my husband down even though he doesn't say it.

No idea, but the low motivation only lasted a short time. Maybe it was the summer heat, who knows.

Yeah it could be. Weight loss and energy levels seem to ebb and flow. You're in Florida so my Wisconsin body is scared just thinking about that heat. Have a good one.

My interest in porn and masturbation dropped off a cliff but my desire for actual sex hasn't changed. I'm worried that if I go higher on the dose I might run into that problem and my girlfriend wouldn't be okay with it.

Depending on where both people are with their sex drives that can definitely hurt a relationship. The last girl I dated matched me on drive while the one before her had none, possibly because she was on birth control which has a kind of hormone effect similar to certain steroids.

Yeah this girl and I will literally pull over on a long drive to have sex real quick. She's even more into it than I am so she definitely wouldn't accept my drive dropping.

That's creative and awesome. I salute that kind of sex drive in a woman.

I don't think a reduced libido matches up with the idea being discussed.

My thoughts exactly. Anhedonia is loss of joy and lowered sexual drive is often the first sign.

If you're still enjoying your hobbies then it's probably not anhedonia since you can still find joy somewhere.

I'm no expert but I don't think it has to be all or nothing to count as anhedonia. Motivation to start hobbies is gone so I have to push myself to begin, then I enjoy them once I'm doing it. I love mountain biking and still do it when the weather and time work out, but instead of looking forward to it I treat it like a chore. Once I'm going I enjoy it. Emotions are also flatter. Things that used to bring excitement or dread now just feel like eh.

Yes, very similar feeling for me and it could be from tirz, reta, or both together. I even notice I'm more meh when talking to my daughters, who are my favorite people. Normally I have higher energy for life. It's not that I'm depressed, just less motivated and less intense.

True, both my wife and I are in a dead zone for intimacy. Our age probably doesn't help. I'm seeing my urologist Thursday and will bring it up.